Comments on: RPS Interview: Valve’s Erik Wolpaw

By: uckeedeed

uckeedeed — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:51:41 +0000

If you missed Valve writer Erik Wolpaw’s talk on Portal 2 at New York University’s Game Center lecture series event last Thursday, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. NYU has uploaded the entirety of Wolpaw’s link wheel massive, hour-plus talk and the Q&A session that followed in video form (which we’ve embedded below the break).

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By: PoC

PoC — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:36:57 +0000

I liked his metaphor comparing a video game writer to the guy who speaks between strip shows. It reminded me of John Carmack’s saying that story in video games is like story in porn–with the difference being that Wolpaw’s version is self-deprecating and funny, whereas the latter is operating largely out of arrogance and narrow thinking.

By: TheTourist314

TheTourist314 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:54:39 +0000

@That Guy: Sounds like you didn’t get Wolpaw’s sense of humor!

By: tomz

tomz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:39:17 +0000

One of the great attributes of the puzzle game Portal, is that it’s intricately narrative-driven.
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By: Lilo

Lilo — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:06 +0000

it turned out he had absolutely no idea what Psychonauts was

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:35:14 +0000

[...] Matt: (I think this might have been the interview I was thinking of, if you’d like to read it: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3585/still_alive_kim_swift_and_erik_.php ) [Edit: It was actually this one.] [...]

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By: That Guy

That Guy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:43:37 +0000

I really loved the writing in Portal, but it kind of made me lose a bunch of respect for this guy how he kept bashing plays and books. Yes, the Lion King was a bad play. It was also inspired by a Disney movie. Writing Portal was not a fraction as involved as writing a play like Romeo & Juliet or a book like Frankenstein.